Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Dare by Elle Kennedy

5 reviews

britwalsh16's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

OMG! This book is EVERYTHING! Like the amount of emotions I am feeling right now is insane! I am Taylor, Taylor is me! I identified sooo much with her it was insane! & Conor with all his talk about body positivity & all his support of Taylor, just made me swoon to no end!! I NEED a man like Conor! He is everything!! If I could give this book 10 stars I would! 100 stars! They go through a lot of very serious stuff, & it was all written so beautifully! I just couldn’t put it down, but also, I did not want it to end!! Give me more of Taylor & Conor please!! Pretty pretty please!!! 🥺🙏🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

caitlinemccann's review against another edition

emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I appreciate how consumable Elle Kennedy's series are. Even if I'm reading it for the first time, there's some inherent comfort in that.

What threw me with The Deal was the heroine, Taylor's, very clear disordered eating habits that were never addressed. Please be mindful of that if you decide to read this book. I debated rating this book lower than a three because of it but ultimately rounded up because there were still enjoyable components elsewhere in the novel. However, I think this is potentially the weakest of the Briar U series.

So easy to read but kind of a meh 3-star rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Misogyny, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity

itsamylynne's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Hate crime, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Outing

culzean's review against another edition

funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

annreadss's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia